Yunnan Pengcheng Tea Factory is located in Mengsong Township, Lancang Lahu Autonomous County, Pu’er City. It is a comprehensive enterprise integrating production, processing and sales. The company covers an area of 5,000 square meters and currently has 50 employees, including 5 technicians and 5 managers. The annual output reaches 1,000 tons. The main products include Pu’er tea, black tea, green tea, white tea, oolong tea, etc. The company has its own tea production base and has established a complete quality management system. It conducts production and processing in strict accordance with national standards to ensure that each batch of tea is a safe, high-quality and reliable product.
Du Qiongzhi, an ethnic Bulang (descendant of the ancient Pu people, the oldest tea farmers in the world), is the founder of Pengcheng TF. She began working at the Menghai TF in 1978. In 1986, she was appointed as the deputy director of tea production at Menghai Tea Factory. In 1992, she was appointed as the director of Menghai County Tea Factory. In 1999, she worked in Menghai Tea Factory, as the deputy director in the General Manager’s Office, responsible for production technology, processing technology, tea quality, tea blending, tea purchases, tea industry base management, and production technology guidance for various departments. In 2004, after the restructuring of Menghai Tea Factory, Ms. Du went to Xinghai Tea Factory as the director, responsible for production and technical guidance. In 2005 she founded Pengcheng TF and in 2013, the Menghai Chama Fengqing Tea Co., Ltd., specializing in the production of ancient tree tea, targeting the high-end puerh tea market.
’07 Bulang Impressions
The Bulang Impressions offers bold bitterness that one comes to expect from classically processed Bulang. Broth initially peaty before plum blossoms. Huigan presents quick sourness accompanied by a cascade of complex impressions: plum sweetness, peat, petrol, flowers. Astringency doesn’t flinch, reaching into the throat. At outset the sweetness resides solely in huigan before emerging in the broth several infusions in. Pencil shavings detectable at cool temps. Durable and dynamic. No smoke. Traditional Bulang aggressiveness characteristic of a bygone era.
Original storage was very good, encouraging steady transformation at no expense to the underlying character. Rock solid compression representative of mid-naught productions. In Los Angeles since Feb ’22. 357g.
27¢
’09 Spring Arbor Tribute
Spring Arbor Tribute, pressed in ’16, steadily builds in sweetness, thickness, and qi, which is pleasantly uplifting and even keeled. There’s no bitterness or smoke, and the astringency fits with its overall personality. Rock sugar and mild astringency. Active in the mouth, generates saliva, not drying. Easy drinking, thirst slaking, and durable. Shengtai. Originally cool and dry stored, in LA since Feb ’22. 357g.
16¢
’09 Blue Mark Bulang Big Tree
Stored in LA since April ’21, the Blue Mark has taken on some mushroom notes indicative of its storage States side. Sweet aroma with a building citrus top note, Meyer lemon. The lemon and mushroom meld. Texture is on the thick side, smooth. Huigan is sweet with lemon taking the fore. Mouth-coating sugar. Piques salivation. Mild astringency at first that picks up steam with each infusion, indicating storage potential. Full-force qi, heady and expansive, almost instantaneous Intoxicating and relaxing. Characteristic Bulang bitterness comes through at around the fifth infusion. Durable. 357g.
25¢
‘18 Big Cabbage
The Big Cabbage, otherwise known as BZ Arbor Shengtai, manifests a distinctively modern processing style. Aesthetically, the cake shimmers with glossy whole leaves. Compression is light, breaking apart easily by hand. Neipiao reads that the material is from high mountain wild material but doesn’t specify. Spry and sweet in initial infusions, little astringency. More characteristic BZ bitterness comes through in later infusions.
Not for traditionalists, but excellent who like the new style that carries a fresh Tieguanyin finish. In Los Angeles since Jan ’23.
16¢
’05 Yiwu Ripe Private Commission
Yiwu Ripe is heavily stored, filled with characteristic Yiwu smoothness and camphor, malt, and milk chocolate accents. Full fermentation. Solid sweetness and richness. Stored in LA since April ’21 in humid conditions to preserve juiciness. 357
25¢
| Size | 05 Big Cab, Big Cabbage, Blue Mark, Bulang Impressions, Spring Arbor, Yiwu Ripe DQZ |
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